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Princess Strawberry
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Posted - 2011.02.27 23:52:00 -
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Note: analysis with pretty graphs here.
Having taken a break from Eve for a while, but now back again, I thought I'd better take a look at how profitable my items are today. When I compared this to how it was 8 months ago, the results make for some quite interesting analysis. I'm going to use the example of Cap Recharger II modules, one of the most traded tech II items and quite exposed to changes in Technetium prices.
Despite technetium prices going through the roof, increasing the prices of construction components (Nanoelectrical Microprocessors and Tesseract Capacitor Units), the launch of PI increasing prices of Superconductors, and the mineral basket increasing, overall costs have gone up by only 3.7%. There has been a huge decline in the costs of datacores and this has almost entirely offset the increases of all the other materials required. Note: I have included everything except taxes (constant) and the cost of lab jobs ("zero" for me since I use a corp POS but then of course I have fuel bills to pay, not included here, and they have increased drastically).
Calculations (for 10 units)
Minerals: up 6.5% to 393k isk
PI products (Superconductors): up 240% to 204k isk
Construction Components (affected by Technetium): up 81% to 760k isk
Datacores: down 19% to 1.7m isk
Not only have costs gone up, but so has the price of the finished product as well. Right now Cap Recharger II's are at a high price, which may not last, but here's the breakdown of the costs versus the sales price anyway:
June 2010
Costs: 2.93m (for 10)
Sale price: 6.1m (for 10)
Margin: 52%
Feb 2011
Costs: 3.04m
Sale Price: 8.1m
Margin: 62%
Although I've just analysed Cap Recharger II's here, this seems to be a general trend with the tech II modules I produce (about a dozen different modules) - costs up by a small or moderate amount, but market prices of (most) end products up enough to compensate.
Prices have been quite turbulent over the last 6 months though, unfortunately I can't find a good reason for the changes in price. A large price decline in November followed a spike in volumes (number of units traded), but otherwise price seems only weakly related to volume.
Any thoughts on price changes much appreciated.
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Breaker77
Gallente
Reclamation Industries
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Posted - 2011.02.27 23:58:00 -
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Edited by: Breaker77 on 27/02/2011 23:59:20
Cap rechargers at the best T2 module to make. I spent a year makeing 5000+ units a week for over a year before I quit.
Hell as of 2 weeks ago with the right decryptor, Macks are profitable until the price dropped to about 60 mil per unit.
Send ISK donations to me for the helpful hints.
Edit: The reason for Cap Rechargers, is that every carebear and 0.0 alt needs them on their ISK printing machine.
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Princess Strawberry
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Posted - 2011.02.28 00:20:00 -
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 Originally by: Breaker77
Edited by: Breaker77 on 27/02/2011 23:59:20
Cap rechargers at the best T2 module to make. I spent a year makeing 5000+ units a week for over a year before I quit.
Hell as of 2 weeks ago with the right decryptor, Macks are profitable until the price dropped to about 60 mil per unit.
Send ISK donations to me for the helpful hints.
Edit: The reason for Cap Rechargers, is that every carebear and 0.0 alt needs them on their ISK printing machine.
Yeah, I've analysed Cap Recharger IIs since I'm hardly giving away any trade secrets (and suffice it to say they are not my most profitable item)... and the volumes are so high I could not care less if some additional people make them on the basis of this info.
Any thoughts on any specific reasons for the prices drifting upwards recently? As I said I've taken a break for a few months but I can't see any gameplay reasons, Cap Recharger IIs have always been a staple of most fits. The general population is increasing I guess but volumes traded haven't hugely increased and anyway volumes seem only weakly related to price.
PS: Send no isk donations to read my blog for further hints 
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Lord Valkris
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Posted - 2011.02.28 06:29:00 -
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The profit in this is basically at its end as people are shifting production into it. The only way to really make anything in T2 production is to have your own spreadsheets. It's the joy of EVE.
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Brock Nelson
Caldari
T2 Technologies Unlimited
SRS.
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Posted - 2011.02.28 13:30:00 -
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Originally by: Princess Strawberry
PS: Send no isk donations to read my blog for further hints
I'll donate to you if you stop giving hints away
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Da Trader
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Posted - 2011.02.28 13:39:00 -
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Originally by: Princess Strawberry
A large price decline in November followed a spike in volumes (number of units traded), but otherwise price seems only weakly related to volume.
Any thoughts on price changes much appreciated.
It is either income effect (ppl earn more = willing to spend more) or increase in demand, partially masked by margintraders
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